Contact Plastic Sheep

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Contact plastic
• Black permanent marker
• Scissors
• Cotton wool balls/puffs

Method:

1. On the non-sticky side of the contact plastic, draw the outline of a sheep with the permanent marker.
2. Peel off the backing a place on the table with the sticky side facing upwards.
3. Place the cotton wool balls onto the plastic within the lines of the sheep you have drawn.
4. Once done, fold the sticky edges in and cut the excess plastic off so that it is not sticky.

Exploding Volcano

Materials:

• Brown paper
• Black cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Cotton wool puffs
• Bronze glitter

Method:

1. Cut out a volcano shape from the brown paper and stick it onto the black card.
2. With the craft glue, draw lines down the volcano and coming out of the volcano.
3. Sprinkle the bronze glitter over the glue and shake off any of the excess glitter.
4. Once the glitter has dried, spread craft glue over the top of the volcano and stick on the cotton wool puffs as the smoke.

Paper Plate Bunny Rabbit

2 year old

3 year old

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Pink pastel
• Black pastel
• Pink pom-pom
• 2 cotton wool puffs
• White craft glue
• White cardboard paper
• Scissors
• 2 googly eyes
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Colour the inner circle of one of the paper plates pink.
2. Use the scissors to cut the paper plate in half.
3. On the other paper plate, use the craft glue to stick on the 2 googly eyes.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the pom-pom nose and 2 cotton wool puffs on either side of the nose.
5. Use the pink pastel to draw in a mouth.
6. From the white card, cut out a bow tie and colour it in.
7. Use the craft glue to stick the bow tie below the mouth.
8. Use the stapler to staple the ears to the face.

Snowman with Ribbon

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• Pastels
• White craft glue
• Cotton wool
• 2 googly eyes
• Black button
• 3 coloured buttons
• String
• Ribbon

Method:

1. Draw an outline of a snowman with the black kokie.
2. Colour the hat in with the pastels.
3. Spread craft glue on the tummy and head of the snowman.
4. Stick wisps of cotton wool onto the glue.
5. Use the craft glue to stick on the eyes, buttons and string (mouth).
6. Use the red kokie to colour the string.
7. Tie a bow with the ribbon and use craft glue to stick it onto the snowman's neck.

Cotton Wool Bunny

Age Group: 2 years to 8 years

Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Small pink pom-pom
• 2 googly eyes
• Cotton wool
• 2 black pipe cleaners
• 2 pink pipe cleaners
• Pink paint
• White cardboard paper
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Cut out rabbit shaped ears from the white cardboard.
2. Paint a smaller section of the rabbit ears pink and set aside to dry.
3. Cover the paper plate with white craft glue.
4. Stick small puffs of cotton wool all over the paper plate.
5. Glue on the googly eyes and pom-pom.
6. Cut both black pipe cleaners in half and glue into place as whiskers.
7. Shape each pink pipe cleaner and glue them as the rabbit's mouth.
8. Glue the ears onto the back of the paper plate.

Cotton Wool Rain Cloud

Age Group: 2 years to 7 years

Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• String
• Cellotape
• Various sized blue pom-poms

Method:

1. Cut out a simple cloud shape from the white cardboard.
2. Spread a layer of white craft glue over the cloud and stick on the cotton wool balls.
3. Cellotape 3 long pieces of string onto the back of the cardboard.
4. Cellotape 3 different sized pom-poms onto each of the pieces of string to mimic raindrops

Doctor's Kit

Personally, this is one of my favourites and is a huge hit with the parents!! You do need to have a few unusual materials, but most can be found in a First Aid Kit.

Age Group: 3 years (with help) to 8 years

Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• 3 A4 pieces of red cardboard paper
• Paper plate
• Surgical glove
• Plaster
• 2 ear buds
• Tongue depressor
• Cotton wool ball
• Ice-cream stick
• Piece of gauze
• White craft glue
• Red kokie
• Black kokie
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Cellotape 2 pieces of red card together on one side so that it can be folded into a case.
2. Cut out 2 semi-circles from the remaining piece of card for the handles as well as 2 strips to create a cross.
3. Cut out the inner of the paper plate and stick the strips of red card onto it and then stick the circle onto the outside of one side of the card.
4. Glue the handles onto the inside of each side of the bag.
5. To make the thermometre, colour about a quarter of the ice-cream stick red with the red kokie, then draw black lines all the way up the ice-cream stick to make the temperature points.
6. Glue all the other materials onto the inside of the bag with white craft glue. 
7. A trick to fit the glove in, is to glue it in half first and then glue it onto the card. Glue each finger into place.

Paper Plate Farm Animals

This was a huge hit with my 3 year old Serbian boy I teach twice a week when we were doing our farm animal theme. 


Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 7 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Pink paint
• White paint
• Black paint
• Small piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Mix some white paint with the pink paint to make a light pink.
2. Paint the paper plate as well as the small piece of cardboard paper with this light pink.
3. Let to dry.
4. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
5. Once the small piece of cardboard paper has dried, cut out 2 pig ears.
6. Stick them onto the dry paper plate with craft glue.
7. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
8. Use the original pink paint (which should be much darker) to paint in an oval nose and mouth on the pig.
9. Once that is dry, paint two circles on the nose for the nostrils.
10. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• White paint
• Black paint
• A4 piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Paint 3 cow patterned "spots" onto the edge of the paper plates with black paint.
2. Use the black paint to paint an oval in the middle of the paper plate as a nose and paint on a mouth.
3. Cut out 2 cow ears and 2 cow horns from the A4 cardboard.
4. Paint the ears black and let dry.
5. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
6. Stick the ears onto the side of the now dry paper plate with craft glue.
7. Stick the horns on the top of the paper plate.
8. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
9. Once that is dry, paint two circles on the nose for the nostrils.
10. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Red paint
• Orange felt
• A4 piece of red cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate red. 
2. Leave to dry.
3. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
4. Trace the child's hand onto the red cardboard paper and cut it out.
5. Stick the hand cut-out onto the dry paper plate with craft glue.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
7. Cut out a triangular beak shape from the orange felt and glue onto the paper plate with craft glue
8. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Pink paint
• Black paint
• A4 piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik
• Cotton wool balls

Method:

1. Paint the A4 piece of cardboard paper black.
2. Whilst the paper is drying, glue cotton wool balls onto the paper plate. Make sure that there are no gaps.
3. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
4. Once the A4 of cardboard paper has dried, cut out 2 sheep ears and a triangular shaped head.
5. Stick them on top of the cotton wool balls with white craft glue.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes to the now black paper.
7. Use the pink paint to paint the tip of the sheep's face into a nose. 
8. Once that is dry, paint two black circles on the nose for the nostrils.
9. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together.

 

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium


Materials:

• Paper plate
• Googly eyes
• Yellow paint
• Orange paint
• Yellow cardboard paper
• White graft glue
• Scissors 

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate yellow and leave to dry.
2. Whilst drying, trace your child's hands onto the yellow cardboard to make the chick's wings and cut them out.
3. Once the plate has dried, use orange paint to paint on a beak.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes and to stick the hand prints onto the front of either side of the chick.